2017-04-03

Hasselblad Wins Top Prize at the Red Dot Award: Product Design

Hasselblad is proud to announce that it has been awarded the highest distinction in the Red Dot Award: Product Design, the Red Dot: Best of the Best for the X1D-50c.

The Red Dot jury assessed thousands of products from all over the world before deciding which have the most extraordinary and innovative designs of 2017. The X1D-50c was recognised for its top design quality and ground-breaking design, based on three principles: an iconic design, outstanding performance and Scandinavian sensibility.

Hasselblad created the X1D-50c with a well-defined personality that would bring to life the essence of the brand while conveying a sense of beautiful performance, expressing superior quality and ergonomics. The final principle, Scandinavian sensibility, represents relaxed elegance that holds all of the elements together in a simple and coherent system.

Professor Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Award, said, “The jury awards the Red Dot: Best of the Best for outstanding design. Only design visionaries can achieve the perfect harmony between the quality of the function, seductiveness, use and responsibility. The award finds ground-breaking designs like these and makes them visible to the whole world.”

Manufacturers and designers around the globe were invited to enter their products in the 2017 competition. The jury of approximately 40 independent designers, design professors and specialist journalists tested, discussed and assessed each individual product awarding the Honourable Mention for a well-conceived detail solution, the Red Dot for high design quality and the Red Dot: Best of the Best for ground-breaking design. In total, the competition received more than 5,500 entries from 54 countries this year.

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About Hasselblad

Founded in 1941, Hasselblad is the leading manufacturer of medium format cameras and lenses. Made in Sweden, Hasselblad cameras are renowned for their iconic ergonomic design, uncompromising image quality and Swedish craftsmanship. For over half a century Hasselblad cameras have captured some of the world’s most iconic images – including the first landing on the moon - and helped shape the way we look at the world through genuine photographic artistry. Trusted by NASA and used by the greatest photographers in the world, Hasselblad continues to create products with uncompromising image quality that inspire.

The Hasselblad H Camera System with its professional lens family and unique advancements is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive digital camera system of its kind available today. Hasselblad was the first to launch the fully integrated medium format camera system incorporating the latest in CMOS sensor technology. In 2016 Hasselblad launched the H6D, a technological feat with an all new electronic platform, delivering superior craftsmanship and image quality.

Later the same year, Hasselblad introduced the world’s first compact mirrorless digital medium format camera – the X1D. Hasselblad’s X1D sensor benchmarked the highest score in the history of DxO Mark’s independent testing.

Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Hasselblad is a global brand with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Shenzhen with distributors throughout the world.

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